Along with scores of “Thanksgiving Day” airplane passengers I stood anxiously awaiting the arrival of my luggage on the conveyor belt. A Miami airport worker arrived with a young man in a wheelchair and stopped about six feet to my right. Clearly a patient and victim of an orthopedic surgeon, the dreadlocks afro-looking young manContinue reading “Synodal Eyes”
Category Archives: Synod
The Word SYNOD
Five different and unique letters in relationship with each other. Like the meaning of the word – “common road” – all five letters dance together to create a movement and meaning. Synod is like . . . . . . . letters coming together to form words, . . . . words coming together toContinue reading “The Word SYNOD”
My Home Garden – An Imperfect Icon of the Church’s Synodal Journey.
The magnificent beauty of the garden rests in the diversity of participants in communion, in symbiotic relationship – the diversity of plants, colours, sizes, types, birds, insects, reptiles, leaves and heights. These diverse members are like companions on a journey. Each by itself lacks beauty, lacks function and lacks purpose. On the journey there isContinue reading “My Home Garden – An Imperfect Icon of the Church’s Synodal Journey.”
Synod as Accompaniment
Synod – Walking Together
Synod is walking together, not running. Running is speed. Speed is end focused. Who will arrive first? Arrival is victory. Victory is reward, not for the group, but for one. Synod is walking together, not running. Walking is slowness. Slowness is awareness, awareness of the other. Awareness of the other is attention. Attention is concern,Continue reading “Synod – Walking Together”
“Synodality: Communion, Participation and Mission.”
“…the temptation to treat the Synod as a kind of a parliament. This confuses synodality with a ‘political battle’ in which, in order to govern, one side must defeat the other” (Handbook for the Synod on Synodality). On Sunday, October 10, 2021, Pope Francis launched the Synod of the Catholic Church with the theme, “Synodality:Continue reading ““Synodality: Communion, Participation and Mission.””
Storytelling
Have you ever babysat a toddler who is learning to pronounce and put words together to communicate a story? Well, I have. It’s fascinating, funny, and riotous. I babysat my friends’ 18 months toddler – Joseph. Together, we sat on the steps of my kitchen. Joseph babbling along, and me? Trying to interpret the babbling.Continue reading “Storytelling”
Beloved Reflections 